Pistoleer Archive

It's a fair bet that Fan Shot will be the most popular choice. I dabbled in smuggler, so my favorite has to be Low Blow. For applying the hurt vs. the environment though, I tend to stick with Health Shot 1. It's fast at master gunfighter, gets through dodge/counter/block, and now that it's targeted, there is little reason to use body shots. There will likely be some champions of stopping shot as well, but I've never cared for that attack. Highest damage I have done with a single attack goes back to smuggler again, Last Ditch. What can I say? If you are going to spend the points for master gunfighter, you may as well spend a few more and pick up dirty fighting. With our pathetic damage outputs, feign death is a skill you will be happy to have.

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DakOveran wrote:

When you need to take out multiple target at the same time, fan shot all the way.

But against a single target, your best guess is to go with a health attack only. I use bodyshot3 when I want to make sure I always target the same pool.

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I tryed that and maybe will have to try again but it seemed Helthshot2 did just as much initial damage and since your striking em witha bleed, as useless as bleeds are right now, you cause some good strength wounds. Ill have to check BS3 again though.

ive always thought stopping shot was the best

Stopping shot has the best damage modifier I think, but Fan shot has better dps at master pistoleer, from what I've heard. Fan shot is cone, which is often useful, sometimes not. Last ditch has the highest damage modifier for pistols in the game I beleive, but fan shot's cone is nice and Last Ditch takes an additional 49 skill points for a Master Pistoleer to get. Your most effective killing shot is probably Health shot, because an enemy with 2000/2000/2000 HAM is deadly while one with 0/3000/3000 is dead.

if you are just a pistoleer and don't have speed sea's and/or a weapon that can hit speed cap then fan shot has the best DPS but if you can hit speed cap then stopping shot is the way to go... and if you have smuggler and some sea's to hit speed cap with last ditch then you will be a one man pistol wrecking crew lol

With the right skills on a single target you can approach, use melee defence which should result in a KD, follow up with stopping shot (which almost always hits the health pool when your target is down!) followed by health shot2. Then back away from your target and kite spamming health shot2 which seems to do more health damage when spammed than body shot. If you have novice medic and some good stim b's you can easily take on powerful mobs like this by taking out the most powerful npc first. There's not too many mobs I'm not willing to take on using this method. No buffs requiered either, maybe just some brandy if your mind pool is set low.

/burstrun is good

If you're kiting a melee, pistolmeleedefense1 is important too, to keep them back off you. Pray it works though.

Fanshot, Healthshot2, Pistolmeleedefense1, and Pointblankarea2 are the most useful ones I've found.

Fan shot all the way

One of the best pve specials in the game IMHO